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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://evpl.org/community/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Search results matching tags 'useful web sites' and 'businesss'</title><link>http://evpl.org/community/search/SearchResults.aspx?a=1&amp;o=DateDescending&amp;tag=useful+web+sites,businesss&amp;orTags=0</link><description>Search results matching tags 'useful web sites' and 'businesss'</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 SP1 (Build: 30619.63)</generator><item><title>Hard-to-find customer service</title><link>http://evpl.org/community/blogs/research/archive/2009/04/15/hard-to-find-customer-service.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:47:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">9a7b961d-7882-4302-b701-732ca0e566f2:1429</guid><dc:creator>googler@evpl</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img width="150" src="http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq316/evplreference/customer.jpg" alt="customer service representative" height="196" style="margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;margin-left:10px;margin-right:10px;float:left;" /&gt;It seems that the more prominently web-based a business is, the&amp;nbsp;harder it is&amp;nbsp;to contact&amp;nbsp;customer service, particularly a human via telephone. A website called &lt;a href="http://contacthelp.com/" title="ContactHelp"&gt;ContactHelp&lt;/a&gt; maintains a database of tricks for bypassing the customer service circus and getting to a real person. Just type the company name&amp;nbsp;into the search box, and you&amp;#39;ll get detailed instructions, written by a person who&amp;#39;s&amp;nbsp;had a successful contact,&amp;nbsp;that tell you what number to dial and what will happen after you dial it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It also gives company hours of operation, email addresses, and links to customer service&amp;nbsp;FAQs and knowledge bases&amp;nbsp;when available. Plus it&amp;nbsp;offers users the ability to rate companies and leave comments. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And if ContactHelp doesn&amp;#39;t show the company you&amp;#39;re looking for, try &lt;a href="http://www.gethuman.com/" title="GetHuman"&gt;GetHuman&lt;/a&gt;. Between these two sites, you should be able to conquer the menu trees and get to a real human for just about any major brand.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>